vincent
vincent

Just pushed out TestFlight build 14 for Gluon. It adds the February photo challenge to Discover and fixes “webcal” links. More details here about the integration. Enjoy it and happy blogging and photo taking!

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Gabz
Gabz

@vincent this is super nice !!!!

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martinfeld
martinfeld

@vincent Nice touch!

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aa
aa

@vincent this is a great update! Love the integration with the photo blogging challenge. Nicely done!!

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jpayne
jpayne

@vincent every time I open gluon it jumps to the top of my timeline. Is there a way to remember where I was? Also is there a way to fill in the timeline? The jump from n hours to y days is jarring :) I love the design and the touches like the events you're adding.

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vincent
vincent

@jpayne hey John, the fixed timeline has been requested a few times so I’ll put a +1 on that.

The gaps are because of limitations with the API, it’ll only get back a certain number of posts depending on how many new ones there are. I’ll need to check what the actual number is though.

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odd
odd

@vincent I think @manton talked about that recently. I just saw the Photo Challenge event on the Discovery page, and thought it was a great idea to request a mini-bulletin on that page for special events and notes about planned downtime etc. If it were possible to click on the cue word and get all posts that had the word + a picture- that would be awesome, but I guess that functionality doesn’t exist (yet).

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thedimpause
thedimpause

@vincent Nice idea! Very useful.

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mcg
mcg

@vincent Loosing read/timeline position is what keeps me from using Gluon more. Hope you can get this working.

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jpayne
jpayne

@vincent thanks! Icro seems to be able to fill in at least 60 posts. Might not be everything but I feel less like I'm missing a lot :)

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truefalse
truefalse

@vincent that’s a very nice feature 💯

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vincent
vincent

@jpayne so Gluon actually keeps your feed in memory and then loads, via the API, the posts after your latest message. However there are occasional issues where, when you have more than 30 posts after the last one, it will not show more because of the API.

I could remove the feed from memory, but then you’d have a blank slate every now and then and things start to slow down. That’s why I built it like that for now...

I’ll need to see though, maybe I can be a bit more clever about it once I think about it. Whilst making minimum requests to the API.

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vincent
vincent

@mcg thanks and I totally get it.

To be honest I never had a sticky scroll position in mind, because I personally never liked it in other apps. I always felt like I had to catch up, rather than just living the moment. Hence the “opinionated” app.

Saying that, I have enough requests for it - so I’ll add it at some stage for sure, as an option.

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vincent
vincent

@odd thanks! So at the moment nothing exists where I can pull in events or even downtime. Although I have a few checks in place myself that monitors Micro.blog for downtime, in the hopes I can add it via the Gluon API.

The challenge has been added manually for the moment, hoping that this can be done my end to show up in the app automatically. So I can see that working nicely in future.

The best way to see the photos is by going to, in Gluon, to Discover and then pressing on “More” - then select “Photos”. There is no special feed for each keyword.

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jpayne
jpayne

@vincent thank you. I look forward to seeing what you come up with :)

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vincent
vincent

@mcg just to follow up, there will be a TestFlight version next week that should solve this. Just played around with it and it seems to work fine. Needs more testing though.

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mcg
mcg

@vincent Fantastic! I'll be looking for the build.

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